Mandrakesoft going public?(Jun 26, 2001, 17:34)
According to this unconfirmed item from a French Linux site,
Mandrakesoft is planning on offering shares on the 'Marché
Libre' of EuroNext, a European exchange, before the end of July.
Most of the shares will be offered to large institutional
investors, with a small share offered to European Linux
"contributors"; because of European regulations, U.S. Linux
contributors won't be offered any shares.

IBM releases new Linux-based eServers(Jun 26, 2001, 17:00)
"IBM today announced two new eServer systems that offer small
and medium-sized businesses access to mainframe and self-healing
technologies. The new IBM eServer xSeries 232 and 342 include
intelligent management features that support IBM's Project eLiza
initiative, a multi-billion dollar program aimed at creating a
world of self-managing servers requiring little or no human
interaction with the goal of making computing networks as easy to
manage as today's kitchen appliances."

LinuxPlanet: The StartX Files: A Little Housekeeping(Jun 26, 2001, 05:34)
In this week's StartX files, Brian Proffitt takes a quick look
at SuSE 7.2 and asks whether this latest version, arriving so soon
after 7.1, is a necessary purchase for SuSE veterans. Also in this
week's column: Brian will be revisiting last year's "Word to the
Wise" series with an update on word processors for Linux. The list
he'll be covering is in this week's column, so make sure to check
it out for your favorite.

BSD Today: FreeBSD's Jordan Hubbard to work for Apple(Jun 26, 2001, 05:16)
"Jordan Hubbard, the FreeBSD release engineer and FreeBSD Core
team member, announced today that he will now be working at Apple.
For the past seven years, he has worked as a FreeBSD CD's product
manager and FreeBSD evangelist for Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDi and
WindRiver Systems."